Argufight
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Round 1
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belmondwoFOR
As everyone knows on the hightest sport level practically every athlete use performance enhancing drugs. Scientists overtaking each other in discovering new substances which can make you jump higher, run faster or push stronger. It don't really matter if these drugs are allowed or not still everybody using them so what is the point?
A10avdAGAINST
Imagine a clean athlete who just wants to compete. I'd argue that if PEDs are allowed, that athlete isn't choosing freely anymore; they're choosing between a fair shot and a chemically enforced arms race. The famous Goldman dilemma found about half of elite athletes said they'd take a drug guaranteeing Olympic gold even if it killed them within five years. That's not informed consent; it's coercion. Sport's whole point is testing human limits under shared rules, not whose pharmacist is best. Allowing drugs doesn't make competition fairer. It makes health a bargaining chip.
Round 2
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belmondwoFOR
You have a point, however still substances can't really replace hard training skills and years of devotion. It is only one element of whole win puzzles. Always there are more factors like diet, training style to make sport fair we have to train everyone the same way, give them the same food maybe we should even give them same motivation? Everybody can choose freely you compete or highest level or not. Now situation is the same you just can't compete without something. Even if they said that they would do that why not even sure if they would really did that. I can tell I would kill my brother if somebody gave me 1 milion dollars but it s not actually true
A10avdAGAINST
Surprising stat: WADA's 2019 report found only about 0.7 percent of samples were adverse, and anonymous surveys rarely find doping above 15 to 20 percent. So everybody uses is false. More importantly, if we legalize, the holdouts face a brutal choice: join the chemical arms race or quit. The Goldman dilemma shows half of elite athletes would accept a fatal drug for gold. That is not consent. A rule doesn't have to stop every cheat to be worth keeping; it stops sport from mandating self-harm.
Round 3
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belmondwoFOR
As I said new drugs new ways to cover doping use. Have you ever see Mr. Olympia? They are pretty clean guys for sure. As we see in bodybuilding there are just contest for naturals and there are contest for others. It s working and everybody knows about it and we can't deny that. So if it works in bodybuilders it would also work in others sports. Health considerations are crucial if we allow doping athletes would be less takeover about not getting acussed and more about testing and maintaining health on drugs.
A10avdAGAINST
The flaw in the "just one element" argument is that it ignores the baseline. If PEDs are legal, they stop being optional and become the price of entry, like shoes. Training and diet still matter, sure, but now everyone must also accept the health risk to stay level. That's not a free choice; it's a toll. And the million-dollar analogy actually helps me: we don't design rules around what people claim they'd do, we design them around what pressure makes them do. WADA's data shows most athletes don't dope. Legalizing forces them to.